Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Two workers remove mud and debris from a flooded area just outside App State’s Rankin Hall on the Boone campus. The UNC System is assessing damages to public universities in western North Carolina, and combined with lost revenue and other costs, the tally will likely come to...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News The two men running to be North Carolina’s next attorney general share several resume lines: Attended law school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, represented part of Mecklenburg County in the state Senate and are serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. But that’s...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Topsail Island towns and their counties have joined forces in asking state legislators for a moratorium on shellfish leases in their waterways. The Pender County Board of Commissioners last week adopted a resolution calling for the state to pump the brakes on issuing new shellfish lease...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily One of the focus points of vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s Wilmington rally Wednesday evening was Helene recovery response. Meanwhile, former officials seeking to influence a second Trump administration want to eliminate the National Weather Service and FEMA disaster grants. Vance, currently a Republican senator from...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer As the dire lack of water in Asheville dragged on, convoys of tanker trucks have been tapping Waynesville’s pristine and plentiful water supply. “Within two to three days after the flood, we started getting inquiries,” said Waynesville Public Services Director Jeff Stines. “There are numerous tankers...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice As the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) seeks to again reinstate Area of Environmental Concern (AEC) protections for Jockey’s Ridge State Park that the state’s Rules Review Commission (RRC) removed in October of last year, the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management (DCM) held a...

Jeff Stein and David J. Lynch/The Washington Post Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would probably raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio A regional transportation planning organization Wednesday voted to advance a plan for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to partner with a private company to build express toll lanes on Interstate 77 in south Charlotte. Under the proposal, a private company would build the toll lanes, which...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer All options are on the table for the monumental task of fixing collapsed portions of Interstate 40 along a four-mile stretch through the Pigeon River Gorge. The N.C. Department of Transportation will use a novel approach to expedite the job and attract the best and brightest...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog About 75 to 80 percent of Asheville’s water customers again have city water, albeit a non-potable variety that has sedimentation in it. At the Wednesday morning daily Helene briefing, Asheville Water Resources spokesperson Clay Chandler gave that estimate on restoration to the system’s 63,000 customers, with the...

Will Doran/WRAL News A former Greensboro-area adult video store employee, who was sued alongside CNN for defamation by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, asked a Wake County judge on Wednesday to throw out the complaint. The lawsuit might be seen less as a legal argument, and more “for the very purpose...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily The Department of Environmental Quality enacted temporary rules to guide the remediation of PFAS groundwater contamination for eight substances this week. The Department of Environmental Quality implemented Interim Maximum Allowable Concentrations Tuesday after receiving a public request from a Greensboro firefighter in July. At least a...

Christopher Miller/The Independent Tribune In an explosive moment during Monday’s Cabarrus County Board of Education meeting, a county commissioner called out a school board member for not being forthright with the public. Commissioner Kenny Wortman singled out Laura Blackwell Lindsey, who is running for a seat on the county commission,...

Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio On Thursday, Sept. 26, John Noce was in Graham County, just above Cherokee, on the southwestern tip of North Carolina, the part that pokes into Tennessee. Noce had been helping the county’s small local elections office prepare for the start of in-person, early voting, which was just...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh For nearly 100 years, the Durham Athletic Park, the well-known setting of the movie “Bull Durham,” has been a dominant fixture in downtown Durham. It was for years home of the Durham Bulls and N.C. Central’s baseball team. But with the Bulls no longer using the stadium...